On Thursday 29 June 2006 6:03 am, ET wrote: > > goat screw is that EL is telling me that suddenly my IP given to me by > > Sprint is being blocked from accessing Earthlink support newsgroups. I > > thought that if I managed to change it it may fix the problem, however, > > from what I see I'm doing something wrong. > > > > Any ideas? > > the eth0:0 was my wise a$$ answer about getting a different IP, if you > already had an ip (a second IP number for the same interface card and > cable connetion) > Since your IP is given out upstream (your ISPs server) and it will be > looking at physical addresses such as the mac address of the router or > network card, for what you are hoping to do, we may need more > information, such as do you have a fixed IP that you purchase or is it > in a dynamic IP range that never changes for you? do you have a router > between your computer and cable modem (or how exactly do you connect to > the internet).
I connect directly through the DSL modem, the IP changes occasionally. I could just reset the modem and get a different IP, but, from a post I just read in alt.provider.earthlink, that may not fix the problem either. Apparently sprint sometimes opens up a new block of addresses and informs earthlink. Earthlink is 'supposed' to add these to their 'approved' list of IPs that can access the news servers, they apparently haven't done what they're supposed to do. I've emailed sprint with the transscript of my chat session with El and will see what they say. Chris -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 06:14:25 up 12 days, 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.29, 0.18 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk
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